Well that’s it for another week dear reader. I started writing this post and then realised my beloved colleague Jon Aird had already started writing a piece on it. So over to you Jon…
To say that we’re keen on The Milk Carton Kids is a bit like saying that we’re keen on air – their’s is the very music that we live for. So it is of course an untrammeled joy to share their new song ‘When You’re Gone‘ which manages to improve upon perfection by the simple addition of a banjo. As Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan sing “I am sitting in the midnight alone can’t bring myself to pick up the ‘phone / so I’m picking through a banjo tune I learnt from you.” That’s banjos for you, a solace from loneliness. It is, in short, all one could wish for from a Milk Carton Kids’ song.
‘When You’re Gone‘ is the second song shared from the new album which will be out early in 2023, which is not so far away now. Have a good one dear reader.
Five years to the day, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale returned to The Barbican's main hall, with their latest album 'Only See the Moon' which has garnered the kind of reviews that The Milk Carton Kids have become accustomed to. Let's not be coy about this, The Milk Carton Kids…
Rejoice, rejoice - The Milk Carton Kids return with a new album, 'I Only See The Moon', which will be released on May 19th via Far Cry Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. It's four years since their last full-length release, there may have been a few things that got…
What more superlatives can we pluck from our mighty chest of superlatives to apply to The Milk Carton Kids? And what more can we say about the new album 'All the things that I did and all the things that I didn't do' other than it's going to be making…
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